Terry on the Fence

As befits a product of the Thatcherite eighties, 'Terry on the Fence' offers a worldlier perspective of life on the streets (which finds expression in the underground argot implied by its title), the language employed by the roughnecks who force our hero to break into his school and steal a couple of radios more raw; while the nearest thing the film provides to a conventional CFF villain is the receiver briefly seen wearing a bright red shirt and two-tone shoes.

The characterisation throughout is far more nuanced than we've previously been accustomed to; the gang's ringleader actually enlisting our sympathy when we see how afraid he is of his brassy abusive mother.